Thursday, 26 September 2013

On Tuesday 15 October, at
Shoreham Airport (7.00 pm), Michael Bartholomew-Biggs will launch his new collection Fred & Blossom, a
poetic tale about love and flying, which was reviewed in the latest number of The
Frogmore Papers. He will be joined
by guest readers and fellow Frogmore voices Jeremy Page and Jackie Wills. Fred & Blossom is based on the
story of F. G. Miles and Maxine Forbes-Robertson, who fell in love in an
aeroplane at Shoreham and went on to design and build successful light aircraft
during the 1930s. Through their lives we
learn about the beginnings of airline travel, the British class system, the
Spanish Civil War and the golden age of detective fiction. The event is free and all are welcome, but
please RSVP to mbiggs@sampo.plus.com

On Thursday 24 October Grace
Nichols and John Agard (7.45 pm, doors 7.00)
will be reading at Needlewriters in Lewes. Grace will be reading from her collection Picasso,
I Want MyFace Back and John will be reading a selection of his
work, particularly from his new Bloodaxe volume Travel Light Travel Dark.

Tickets are £5 (£3 unwaged and claiming
benefit) and are available in advance from Skylark bookshop in the
Needlemakers, Lewes (and why not pick up a copy of the new issue of The
Frogmore Papers while you’re about it?). It is anticipated that this event
will sell out and early purchase of tickets is strongly recommended. More information from: http://www.needlewriters.co.uk/

And on the subject of John Agard, the Frogmore blogmaster cannot resist posting this wonderful picture of John receiving The Queen's Gold Medal of Poetry 2012:

Tuesday, 10 September 2013

The latest edition of The
Frogmore Papers is now out and will be sent out to contributors and
subscribers within the next few days.
The Papers’ 82nd number contains new poetry from Ann
Alexander, Robert Etty, Fred Johnston, Maitreyabandhu and others, prose from
Derrick Buttress, Alan Blackwood, Robert
Maslen and Josie Turner, artwork from Alexei Talimonov and all of the
poems shortlisted for this year’s Frogmore Poetry Prize by Stephanie Norgate,
including the winning poem by Emily Wills.